Word: fades
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...since the Tiananmen crackdown so the risk of rousing large-scale protests is minimal. Except for a few notices posted outside the Beijing Intermediate People's Court, the prosecutions have so far proceeded with little official fanfare. The government may be calculating that concern for the detainees will eventually fade, as it did for Wei Jingsheng, 40, an activist during the Democracy Wall movement of 1978-79, who is marking his 12th year behind bars...
...wrangling over deficit reduction this year, most of the participants from both parties assumed at first that the Department of Defense would have to accept major spending cuts. But then came the gulf conflict, and the hoped- for peace dividend began to fade. Budget summiteers made an implicit agreement not to wreak hardship on the military. In the end, the budget resolution set Pentagon spending for fiscal 1991 at $288.3 billion, a reduction of $19 billion from the President's request...
Honey, I Blew Up the Baby (Disney) Studio boss Jeffrey Katzenberg is eager to repeat the success of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In one of the script concepts being considered, a child is Xeroxed to huge size. But copies usually fade, and star Rick Moranis will demand a huge salary...
...generally favor a more influential role for Japan in world affairs are concerned. They are worried that the specter of Japanese troops operating outside the country might stir resentment abroad, especially in Asia, where the memory of Japanese conquest and occupation in World War II has yet to fade and resentment of Japanese wealth is widespread...
...kids, one only hopes that adults will be adults. The conservative journalists and think tanks that support the Review would be doing Dartmouth a big favor by removing their names from the the magazine's masthead and their financial support from its bank accounts so that the Review will fade into a much deserved obscurity...